AGI 
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The medical sciences equivalent: "we're working on developing a formula that can cure everything, including death... it will upend life as we know it. With a $1B investment, it may only be 10 years away"
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The material sciences equivalent: "we're working on a matter printer -- it could materialize any object in seconds, purely from a data specification, with any material... it will make obsolete all of manufacturing. With a $1B investment, it may only be 10 years away"
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But if computer science says it, somehow all semblance of critical thinking goes away? Although -- these are not even fair comparisons. The cure to everything & the matter printer are much-better defined: it's clear what their implications are and why they would be valuable.
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The main reason I dislike this nonsense: generality in artificial intelligence is a serious research topic, with real stakes & real applications, with both near-term & long-term progress to be made. These ridiculous sci-fi stories, that shape public perception, are an obstacle.
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It's like... working on blood testing research in a world where a secretive company has raised $1.4B to build a mysterious device that can test anything from a single blood drop. In the mind of the public, it's the only narrative they can think of when you bring up your research
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And yet -- it's serious, life-saving research. No thanks to cult-like profiteers who overpromise and underdeliver.
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